Open AccessWound Care Requires A Refocusing of Effort–Should 2011 Be The Time?
Author(s) -
Harding Keith,
Queen Douglas
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international wound journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.867
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1742-481X
pISSN - 1742-4801
DOI - 10.1111/j.1742-481x.2010.00752.x
Subject(s) - medicine , subject (documents) , blame , specialty , wound care , criticism , podiatrist , health care , public relations , medical education , nursing , intensive care medicine , surgery , family medicine , psychiatry , library science , computer science , political science , complication , art , literature , economics , economic growth
Our editorials during 2010 have focused on a number of areas of concern or controversy in the treatment and prevention of wounds. Topics ranging from evidence to specialisation have been our focus. One common theme is that all these areas impact on our ability as clinicians to deliver optimal care to our patients. It seems that our environment, whether commercial, clinical or academic will face significant hurdles in moving our subject forward. As individuals involved in different aspects of the development of wounds as a clinical specialisation we need to work together rather than in different or indeed opposing directions. This is not a criticism but rather an observation that perhaps we need to refocus our combined academic, clinical and commercial resources to re-energise and redirect the emergence of this subject as a clinical specialty. This will require joined up thinking and working towards common goals to deliver a more co-ordinated approach. To the outside world (i.e. those not involved in wound care) the subject appears complicated, ill-informed and extremely fragmented. Specific examples are: